This story is from June 29, 2020

Covid-19 toll 62 in Bihar, tally crosses 9,000-mark

Four more Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the state, including one in Patna district, even as the number of coronavirus patients crossed the 9,000 mark on Sunday. Altogether 245 patients were tested positive for the virus in the state on Sunday, taking the number of cases to 9,224. The disease has so far claimed lives of 62 people in the state.
Covid-19 toll 62 in Bihar, tally crosses 9,000-mark
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PATNA: Four more Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the state, including one in Patna district, even as the number of coronavirus patients crossed the 9,000 mark on Sunday. Altogether 245 patients were tested positive for the virus in the state on Sunday, taking the number of cases to 9,224. The disease has so far claimed lives of 62 people in the state.
As many as 7,156 patients have recovered so far.
The number of active patients in the state stood at 2,006 on Sunday. Altogether 226 people have been discharged from hospitals and isolation centres in the last 24 hours. Recovery rate in the state has now touched 77.5%.
A 78-year-old Covid patient from Kankarbagh in Patna died at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital. Dr Mukul Kumar Singh, epidemiologist-cum-nodal officer at NMCH, said the man had been in the intensive care unit of the hospital since June 21. “He was on oxygen support and suffering from fever as well,” he said.
With this, 15 Covid-19 patients have so far died at NMCH. Altogether 27 more Covid patients were admitted to the hospital on Sunday. Of them, one with mild symptoms was discharged.
In Patna district, 23 new positive cases were recorded on Sunday from Patna City, Lohanipur, Kankarbagh, Khusrupur, Barh, Naubatpur, Athmalgola and Danapur areas. Six people have so far died in Patna district due to Covid-19.
Health secretary Lokesh Kumar Singh said apart from Patna, Arwal, Nawada and Rohtas districts recorded one death each on Sunday.
“A 40-year-old-man, who had returned from Surat to his native place in Rohtas and tested positive for Covid-19, died on Sunday. A 58-year-old man from Nawada and a 55-year-old woman from Arwal have also died due to comorbidity. Both were tested positive for coronavirus. The woman was undergoing treatment at AIIMS-Patna,” Singh said in a press statement. The health secretary said while the national death rate is 3%, it’s just 0.7% in Bihar.

As per information shared by the health department, positive cases were reported from 32 districts, including 40 from Bhagalpur, on Sunday. Nalanda recorded 16 cases; Vaishali and Jehanabad 13 each; Araria, Samastipur and Bhojpur 10 each; Begusarai nine, Auranagabad and Rohtas eight each; Katihar, Saran, Supaul and Munger seven each; Gaya, Kaimur, Sheikhpura, West Champaran and Nawada six each; Madhubani five; Arwal, Purnia and Gopalganj three each; Buxar, Lakhisarai, Muzaffarpur, Siwan, Sitamarhi and Jamui two each and East Chamapran, Kishanganj and Sheohar one each.
Altogether 2,05,832 samples have so far been tested in the state. In the last 24 hours alone, 7,447 samples were tested.
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